Jamuna Future Park
{{Short description|Shopping mall in Dhaka, Bangladesh}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}}
{{Infobox shopping mall
| name = Jamuna Future park
| logo = Jamuna Future Park Logo.svg
| logo_width = 110px
| image = Jamuna Future Park.JPG
| image_width = 275px
| location = Baridhara, Dhaka, Bangladesh
| coordinates = {{coord|23|48|40|N|90|25|29|E|type:landmark_region:BD|display=inline,title}}
| address = Ka-244, Pragati Sarani
| opening_date = {{Start date and age|df=yes|2013|8|10}}
| developer = Jamuna Group
| manager =
| owner = Jamuna Group
| architect = AJM Alamgir
| number_of_stores = 510
| number_of_anchors =
| floor_area = {{convert|4100000|sqft|m2|sigfig=2|abbr=}}
| floors = 8
| parking = 2,500
| website = {{URL|jamunafuturepark.com}}
| footnotes = {{cite web |url=http://www.jamunafuturepark.com/content.php?q=glance |title=Project at a Glance |publisher=Jamuna Future Park |accessdate=6 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130826092849/http://www.jamunafuturepark.com/content.php?q=glance |archive-date=26 August 2013 |url-status=dead}}
}}
Jamuna Future Park is a shopping mall in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It was inaugurated on 6 September 2013. Construction began in 2002, by Jamuna Builders Ltd., a subsidiary of the Jamuna Group and the exterior was completed in 2008. It has a total floor area of {{convert|4100000|sqft|m2|sigfig=2|abbr=}}.{{cite web |title=.: Jamuna Future Park {{!}}{{!}} The Biggest Shopping Mall in South Asia ! |url=http://jamunafuturepark.com/content.php?q=features |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130920110538/http://jamunafuturepark.com/content.php?q=features |archivedate=20 September 2013 |accessdate=2015-12-03 |work=jamunafuturepark.com}}
It is the biggest shopping mall in South Asia, and the 24th biggest mall in the world.
Location
The complex is spread across {{convert|33|acre}} of land in Kuril, Baridhara, situated on the Pragati Sharani, neighboring upper class residential areas of Dhaka city like Gulshan, Banani and Bashundhara.{{cite news |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=252855 |title=Jamuna Future Park to open soon |date=8 October 2012 |newspaper=The Daily Star |accessdate=10 October 2012}} It is relatively close to Shahjalal International Airport, offices of multinational companies, major embassies and other offices.{{cite web |url=http://jamunafuturepark.com/features.php |title=Features |publisher=Jamuna Future Park |accessdate=16 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160716142624/http://www.jamunafuturepark.com/features.php |archive-date=16 July 2016 |url-status=dead}}
It can be accessed by the Kuril Flyover, which opened in August 2013, from both directions of the Airport Road.
Structure
The centrally air-conditioned shopping complex has seven floors, equipped with its own 45MW power plant and WiFi internet. The lower basement and middle basement floor are reserved for car parking and a portion for a supermarket and a hypermarket. This mall has 2,500 car parking spaces.{{cite news |title=Looking for a parking space? Multi-storey car parks at your service |url=https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/infrastructure/looking-parking-space-multi-storey-car-parks-your-service-323173 |work=The Business Standard |date=31 October 2021}} Level 1 is the base floor for all atria, facilities for live entertainment, musicals and fashion shows. From the ground floor to the fifth floor, there are several categories of outlets, non-branded shops, banks, online booths, and food courts. The fifth floor has space for a children's theme park, a gymnasium and a health club, two separate swimming pools for men and women, exhibition halls, banquet halls, international standard movie theater with seven individual halls, 22-lane bowling alley with karaoke facilities, and a musical and entertainment floor. JFP is also going to have Dhaka's second ice skating rink. The shopping mall is built with earth resistance as per Bangladesh National Building Code (BNBC) Zone 2.{{cite web |url=http://pwd.gov.bd/document/library/BNBC_Part01.pdf |title=Bangladesh National Building Code pdf file |date=2006 |publisher=Public Works Department, Bangladesh |accessdate=16 October 2015}}
Future projects include a 700-room JW Marriott Dhaka hotel{{cite news |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=267917 |title=Jamuna Group gets Marriott as hotel partner |date=5 February 2013 |newspaper=The Daily Star |accessdate=5 February 2013}} and a mosque.
Services
The world's largest Indian Visa Application Centre (IVAC) is located on the ground floor in this mall.{{cite news |title=World's largest Indian visa centre inaugurated in Dhaka |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/city/integrated-india-visa-centre-inaugurated-jamuna-future-park-in-dhaka-bangladesh-1605199 |work=The Daily Star |agency=UNB |date=14 July 2018}}
Gallery
File:Roof of Jamuna Future Park shopping mall in Dhaka Bangladesh 1.jpg|Roof dome of Jamuna Future Park shopping mall
See also
References
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External links
{{Commons category}}
- {{Official website|http://www.jamunafuturepark.com/}}
{{Shopping malls in Bangladesh}}
Category:Shopping malls in Dhaka